Saturday morning
A couple of posts on Tor.com Faster than Light at any speed, about FTL, and Something old, something new trying to justify reviewing old stuff.

I'm feeling a bit better today, still a little breathless and constricted and exhausted, but no more dizziness thank goodness and I wouldn't define this constriction as actual pain. Also my blood pressure was down to 124/80 when I tested it myself in Pharmaprix. The tests took most of the day yesterday, Z came with me and was very amusing. In the absence of any results yet, I'm tentatively working on a hypothesis that it may be menopause. I like this hypothesis for several reasons, first: no more periods, second: nothing more serious, third: it'll go away. My second favourite suggestion was the idea that my ears are on too tight. Thanks for all the comments, which I really appreciate.

My plants are all growing. The herbs I put in Victoria Day weekend are sufficiently well established that I can use them in food, which is just great. And I have one left of the herb cubes I froze last autumn! I love popping outside to get what I want. I especially love fresh sage, because with everything else the dried or frozen variety is OK, but dried sage might as well be a different plant. This year's seeds are a combination of mixed seeds for hanging baskets (in a window-box on the rail) which are coming up really well, and mixed seeds that butterflies are supposed to like (in another) and some sweet peas in a tub. All these are up and green and growing enthusiastically, though unidentifiable as yet. The ginko tree and the Ontario pine (gift of the Ontario Literary Festival -- did I mention that literary writers get all these cool freebies?) are thriving in their pots. I've put some pansy seeds around the ginko tree, and they seem like the only failures so far, no sign of anything sprouting in there. Oh well.

The restaurant guide for Anticipation is pretty much done. Much of it can be seen on the antici_food community.